Variation of Bending Strength along Structural Timber Members

摘要

In this publication three papers on the variation of bending strength along211u001estructural timber members are presented. All papers are dealing with an ongoing 211u001eresearch project where the second phase has just been finished. The first paper 211u001efocuses on describing the evaluation of the test results from the second phase of 211u001ethe project. Measured bending strengths are compared with values obtained from a 211u001eproposed hierarchical model. In the second paper a summary of the project is 211u001egiven and the obtained test results are compared with results from other 211u001einvestigations. Finally, the third paper gives a summary of the project and 211u001efocuses on the possibility of introducing the proposed model for the bending 211u001estrength variation in a reliability based design code for timber structures.